Bad News

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Well bad news travels like wild fire 


Good news travels slow 

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And they call me old wild fire everywhere I go 



         F                  C 
Lord I'm bad news everybody knows 

G7 
Always gettin' into trouble 

    F 
And leaving little girls 
  
                    C 
That hate to see me go 



NC  
Well I've picked peaches down in Georgia 


I lumber jacked up in Maine 


And I've been hired and fired and jailed 

                       C7 
In every state you can name 



NC 
Cause I'm... 


          F                  C 
Lord I'm bad news everybody knows 

G7 
Always gettin' into trouble 

    F 
And leaving little girls 
  
                    C 
That hate to see me go 



NC 
Well from north to south 


From east to west the story is the same 


From one state to the other 
  
                   C7 
I had to change my name 



         F                  C 
Lord I'm bad news everybody knows 

G7 
Always gettin' into trouble 

    F 
And leaving little girls 
  
                    C 
That hate to see me go 

  

NC 
Well they tried to hang me down in Oakland 


They did in San Francisco 


But I wouldn't choke and I broke their rope 

                       C7 
And they had to let me go 



         F                  C 
Lord I'm bad news everybody knows 

G7 
Always gettin' into trouble 

    F 
And leaving little girls  

                    C 
That hate to see me go